Condensed Pilot Card
Goryo’s Vengeance Split Threat · Aug 2026
ThesisThreaten instant-speed reanimation while presenting enough fair pressure that dedicated hate cannot answer the whole deck.
Premium openingTwo lands, an enabler, a threat or Goryo line, one piece of interaction.
Best proactive lineTheir end step: fetch a surveil dual, bin Atraxa, cast Goryo, untap, attack, then blink or Consign before your own end step.
Best stabilizing lineEvoked Solitude plus Ephemerate, then Atraxa or Riddler above a controlled Wrath threshold.
Key sequencing ruleAfter discarding to Psychic Frog, say out loud that you retain priority, then cast Goryo.
Key rules edgeBlinking the reanimated creature makes it a new object, and the delayed exile trigger cannot find it.
Against fast decksStabilize into Atraxa. Griselbrand is the target you cannot afford.
Against stack decksCompress setup and Goryo into the smallest window they can interact with.
Sideboarding ruleAdd fair threats and targeted answers without removing the reason they boarded against you.
Make them respect Goryo, then win with the half they left uncovered.